Information for the 2024 Annual Meeting

This page contains information regarding the upcoming member's only Annual Meeting of the RASC Toronto Centre.

• Notice of Annual Meeting
• Zoom Meeting Details
• Documents from the 2023 Annual Meeting
• Proposed Slate
• Proposed Bylaws
• Documents for the 2024 Meeting

Notice of Annual Meeting

This message is the Notice of Annual Meeting of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, which is to be held on Wednesday, 4 December 2024.

The Annual Meeting will immediately follow the Recreational Astronomy Night presentations. As per usual, the RAN will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel for all members and the public to view. After the live-stream concludes, the Annual Meeting will commence.

The Annual Meeting will be conducted online with Zoom for interactions and voting (see below for details).

RASC Toronto Centre is a not-for-profit Ontario corporation and a registered charity. The Annual Meeting is the opportunity for you to learn about what has been achieved by the Toronto Centre in fiscal year 2023-2024 and its finances.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:

1. Adoption of the Minutes of the 2024 Annual Meeting. 
   (The Minutes in a PDF file are available for download. See below.)
2. Business Arising from the Minutes
3. Reports of Officers
   
   1.      President’s Report
   2.      Treasurer’s Report
   3.      Secretary’s Report
4. Elections of 2024-2025 Toronto Centre Council
5. Appointment of the Auditor
6. Other Business
   1. New Bylaws
7. Adjournment

We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting.

Tom Luton, President
president@rascto.ca 

  
Zoom Meeting Details

On December 4, 2024 at approximately 8:30pm Eastern Time, a virtual meeting using Zoom will be used to conduct the RASC TC Annual Meeting with electronic voting by members through polls in Zoom. To participate in the polls, you will need the free Zoom software installed on a computer or device. Visit the Zoom web site to download the app.

Pre-registration in Zoom is required for the Annual Meeting. This will inform us if we will achieve a quorum and the expected maximum number of attendees. Registration closes at 12:01am Monday 2 December 2024.

You will be prompted for your name and email address.

Register in advance for the Zoom meeting: Meeting Link

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please let us know if you experience any difficult in registering for the event.
president@rascto.ca

Submitted by 
TBA
Nominations Committee

Documents from the 2023 Annual Meeting

The Minutes from the 2023 Annual Meeting can be found in the RASCTO Documents and also be accessed here.

Proposed Slate

In preparation for the Annual Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 4 December, the Council is pleased to propose the following slate of candidates for the RASC Toronto Centre Council for the year 2024-2025. 

Executive

President 2025 - Bob Abraham Honorary
President 2026 - Scott Masterton 
1st VP 2026 - Aly Kamadia
2nd VP 2026 - Elaina Hyde
Secretary 2027 - Mahesh Aravamudan
Treasurer 2025 - Denis Grey
Recorder 2026 - Andy Beaton

Councillors

Councillor 2027 - Ed Treijs
Councillor 2027 - Tony Horvatin
Councillor 2027 - Don Stewart
Councillor 2026 - Frank Dempsey
Councillor 2026 - --------------
Councillor 2026 - Tanya Oleksuik 
Councillor 2025 - Charles Yung 
Councillor 2025 - Charles Darrow 
Councillor 2025 - Diana Salerno 

Past President 2026 - Tom Luton 
Past President 2026 - Ralph Chou 

See the RASC TC Organization page for the current 2023-2024 Council and current committee chairs.

Additional nominations to any or all of the open positions presented by two members of the Centre and accompanied by the consent of the nominee(s) to act, if elected, may be filed with the Secretary of the Centre (secretary@rascto.ca) not less than two weeks prior to the annual meeting.

Submitted by 
TBA
Nominations Committee

Proposed Bylaws

The creation of the Ontario's Not-for-Profit Corporations Act has required by law that our bylaws be altered to reflect the new legislation. To this end we have drafted a new set of bylaws and present them for your approval.

The new bylaw can be found in the RASCTO Documents and also be accessed here.

Documents for the 2024 Meeting

Secretary's Report - Access Here

RASC-TC Financial Statements - See below

Members may also review past Council meeting minutes.